[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#976697: webext-umatrix: no longer developed upstream, remove or switch to LibreMatrix or?

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

just became aware of this issue due to how-to-help telling me about
the testing removal. What a pity. (Thanks Vagrant!)

Paul Wise wrote:
> This was discussed on Hacker News at the time:
> 
>    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24532973
> 
> The upstream author has stated they no longer have time for it:
> 
>    https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uMatrix-issues/issues/291#issuecomment-694988696
>    
>    I've archived uMatrix's repo, I can't and won't be spending any more
>    time on this project, and neither on all such issues.

*sigh* I'm a heavy uMatrix user and rely on it. :-(

(And I never ran into the issues Anarcat mentioned. I only had the
impression that it occassional fought with Chromium's own cookie
blocker and the displayed number of cookies wasn't correct.)

> I think that uMatrix now isn't suitable to ship in bullseye.

Unfortunately, yes.

> These are the options for solving this issue:
> 
> uMatrix could be removed in favour of uBlock Origin's advanced mode.

Never heard of that mode. Is it comparable? I kinda diskliked uBlock
Origin for having too many automatisms not being strict enough for my
taste.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-quick-guide
doesn't really like it's on par with uMatrix. :-(

> uMatrix could be removed and LibreMatrix packaged, I think this is a
> community fork so it should be a drop-in replacement.
> 
>    https://www.librematrix.com/

No more resolves.

>    https://github.com/LibreMatrix/LibreMatrix

Repo seems to have been emptied two weeks ago.

		Regards, Axel
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